Angus’ wife – Louisa Jane Hanson

Louisa shares the tombstone with her husband Angus at Calvary Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.

Certificate of Death Louisa Jane McDonald, 3268 38th Ave. SW, died April 7, 1939. She was white, widowed. Husband Angus McDonald. Date of birth Sept. 12, 1866. She was 72 years old 6 months 25 days old at death. She died at home. She was born in Scandinavia, Wisconsin. Father was Ole Hanson born in Norway. Mother was Lena born in Sweden. Helena Penglase was the informant. Interment in Calvary Cemetery on 4/10 /1939. Bonney-Watson handled the arrangements. She died of a metastic carcinoma of the abdomen. C.A. Anderson signed from 47…California Ave. #1360.

The Family History Library has films of the death certificates for Washington State up to about 1952 and the Everett Stake has a nice collection. The films are little challenging to figure out. Large cities can be on several films. There is an index.

Funeral Announcement for Louisa McDonald

In past posts on Angus I have shown the census for the family and in the 1920 U.S. Federal for Seattle, Washington Albert and a Frank Hanson were living with them at that time. I got curious to see if I could find Louisa’s family and go a little further back.

Her father was Ole Hanson and her mother was Lena and they had the following children:

Albert H. Hanson born about 1853 in Norway

Sena Hanson born about 1858 in Norway

Maggie Hanson born about 1861 in Norway

Anthony Hanson born about 1864 in Wisconsin

Louisa Jane Hanson born in 1866 in Wisconsin

Frank G. Hanson born about 1868 in Wisconsin

The 1880 and 1870 U.S. Federal Census for Ole and Lena Hanson has them living in Eau Plains, Portage Co., Wisconsin. Apparently Ole was not in the 1880 and Lena was on her own raising the family.

Sena and Frederick are not in the 1880 Census which is very interesting. I believe I started to have trouble with the Ole Hanson family and could not find them in the 1860 which means they might have been migrating at the time? There are lot of Ole Hanson’s so it might take awhile to figure out if he did submit naturalization papers or when they actually arrived.

As usual, I try to identify the location of a family history site but I am having trouble with Eau Plaine, Wisconsin. I was also having trouble with Scandinavia with just a Google search. So I caution you regarding these locations. Counties have a tendency to change as an area develops and places come and go. I have not done much research in Wisconsin and I am not comfortable continuing at this time.

There is more to be done on Great Uncle Angus’ family and it would be fun to figure out where he took out his naturalization papers? Tracking Angus has been difficult and I have a big gap between 1881 and 1897, then another gap up to 1910. I just wish I could find them in the 1900 U.S. census or the 1901 Canadian?

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1/30/2015 is my Blog's Anniversary. Wordpress sent me a nice Happy Anniversary message but Geneabloggers has forgotten. It was 5 years ago I started this blog about my Dad's (Keith), family. I have more to go and will be getting to his military service in the next months and then the name of the blog will make sense.

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